Glenayre Selects Intel to Provide Foundation for Next-Generation Speech Services Solutions
January 23, 2002 16:15
ATLANTA, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Glenayre Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEMS), a leading global provider of advanced, next-generation messaging solutions, today announced an agreement with Intel's Network Processing Group. Through this arrangement, Intel will supply open standards based communications building blocks that serve as the foundation for Glenayre's next-generation voice services solutions, the companies will jointly cooperate in standards bodies, and together Glenayre and Intel will launch co-marketing programs that continually evolve communications solutions to meet the industry's needs. The companies plan to bring next-generation communications to fruition by enabling easy-to-use voice-powered solutions that simplify message management for service providers and subscribers alike.
"As the communications industry continues to move towards open modular solutions, Intel will work with innovative developers like Glenayre, to enable and accelerate this transition," said Howard Bubb, Vice President, General Manager, Network Processing Group for Intel. "Glenayre's decade-long commitment to communications solutions will blend with our expertise in communications building blocks technologies, resulting in significant advancement of next-generation communications solutions for the service provider community."
"Working with Intel is an important component of Glenayre's aggressive voice services strategy," said Eric Doggett, President and Chief Executive Officer for Glenayre. "Advances in speech recognition, text-to-speech and messaging technologies will help take communications to the next level. Glenayre's continued development of innovative voice services will culminate in a unique Personal Communications Portal solution that serves as a single base of control for all of a user's communications activities. Service providers that deploy this personal portal will be able to offer flexible, customized solutions that deliver and manage content for a variety of subscriber markets. Subscribers will be able to customize their Personal Communications Portal, select the content that best suits their needs and access and manage information to get what they want, whenever they want it. By making communications services easier to use, service providers can increase their revenue streams, build subscriber loyalty and reduce costly churn."
Glenayre delivers advanced, next-generation messaging solutions for communication service providers that give users more control over their communications. The company believes that open, IP-based applications coupled with advances in speech technology will drive a communications revolution that will increasingly provide more options for when, how and where we manage information and choose to communicate.
About Glenayre:
Glenayre is a leader of enhanced services and unified communications solutions for service providers including wireless, fixed network, ISP and broadband. Glenayre systems are designed on open platforms with a standards- based architecture supporting IP and traditional telephony networks for a graceful evolution from 2G to 2.5G and 3G services. More than 200 service providers in over 60 countries have deployed Glenayre messaging solutions for voice, fax and e-mail messaging, including one-number services, voice navigation and voice dialing, mailbox out-dialing and one-touch call return. Glenayre, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, has been providing carrier-grade communications solutions for the global market for over 40 years. For more information, please visit www.Glenayre.com .
About Glenayre's Next-Generation Communications Solutions
Glenayre's Communications solutions allow users to manage voice, fax and e-mail messages in a single, centralized mailbox and support messaging technologies such as Short Messaging Services and Multimedia Messaging Services in 2G, 2.5G and 3G environments. Glenayre's solutions are built on a standards-based, IP-enabled platform utilizing Java and VoiceXML for an open applications framework, allowing service providers to rapidly develop and deploy innovative, cost-effective messaging applications that will evolve with the upcoming Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) standard for full, multi- modal communications applications.
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